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May 14th Preliminary Notes - Dark Whisperer Insanity

New Skin - Dark Whisperer AMC

Skins

Nemesis - Blind Vengeance

Voice pack added

NOTE: Night Prowler Bastet has been removed from the game while aspects of the skin are reworked. Our sincere apologies for this inconvenience. Everyone that purchased Night Prowler will be refunded the gems from the purchase.

General

Fixed an issue on the store stats tab with Physical Protection showing in Magical Stats.

Fixed a party match lobby issue where skins and re-roll were unavailable.

Accolade art is now suppressed if an objective bar is up.

Fixed missing god kill announcements.

Fixed an issue in Tutorial where the store couldn’t be closed.

Fixed an issue with item cooldowns persists in the item slot after selling.

Fixed an issue with players reconnecting to a paused match not seeing their HUD elements correctly.

Possible bug fix with people disconnecting during the match loading screen.

Fixed issue with Ticker on return to lobby.

Fixed tooltip for all Joust queue descriptions.

Siege

Added Siege mode to Custom matches.

Siege towers can no longer be kited into the jungle.

Fixed an issue with Map Guides always showing in Siege when disabled.

Fixed an issue in which Siege wins were not appearing on gold loading screen cards.

New “temp” voice over work has been added.

Increased maximum player respawn timers.

Added sounds for siege weapon spawn and death.

Match Lobby

Improved art pass on draft mode match lobby.

Fixed bugs with auto-lock in post 2nd ban phase.

Spectator

Siege Map now features support for a custom sub-level that clears trees and other obstacles for improved spectating.

League

All in game league screens have undergone an Art pass.

Changed the points trend algorithm to show a players point trend over 24 hours. If a player is point positive then it will show an up arrow and a down arrow if negative.

Added new art for all of the league divisions.

Added Season 1 league rewards. Players will be given a player icon for the highest tier that they completed.

Fixed bug where friends would not refresh based on switching leagues.

If you do not participate in the league you will still see your friends that are.

Friends list now shows division they are in.

Friends list now shows point trending.

Increased leaderboard size from 100 to 200 players.

League queue descriptions have been updated.

Various season closing enhancements / bug fixes.

Various updates to league pages on out of game website.

General Gameplay

All healing reduction abilities on gods should now stack with healing reduction from items.

Gods - Balance/Updates/Fixes

Artemis

General

Fixed an issue with the bow showing up purple on the Stalker skin.

Fixed Boar interactions with players that are jumping.

Bakasura

General

Fixed misspelling in lore.

Bastet

Pounce

Bastet can no longer pounce back while under the effects of crowd control.

Bastet is now CC immune for 1s after she lands from the initial Pounce. She can still Pounce Back for up to 4s, but is only guaranteed being able to do it for the 1s CC immunity.

Razor Whip

Casting time increased from 0.2s to 0.35s.

Damage reduced from 30/50/70/90/110 to 25/45/65/85/105.

Kumbhakarna

Epic Uppercut

Corrected tooltip error.

Fixed an issue with Kumbhakarna not dashing when firing next to an enemy Hades during Pillar of Agony.

Osiris

General

Exalted One skin now correctly shows red eyes.

Base health increased from 410 to 475.

Judgement Tether

Addressed an issue that prevent Osiris from using his basic attack

Lord of the Afterlife

This ability may now be used while crippled, and provides CC immunity while leaping.

All enemy gods in the area are now hit, instead of just the lowest health god.

Can no longer cancel the start up, which fixes a basic attack progression issue.

Scylla

Sic ‘Em

Corrected an issue with lifestealing. Now only the initial target hit will proc lifesteal on this ability.

Sobek

Sickening Strike

The healing debuff from this ability now stacks properly with healing debuffs from items.

Thanatos

Hovering Death

Fixed an issue with getting stuck after firing Aegis before ascending.

Custom Sieges are now a thing so my channel can do custom matches if the viewers want, that's great. Now we can see custom tournaments in Siege as well. It was too bad Fats couldn't have his tournament on day one of Siege launch.

-------League

The UI changes look great.

Being able to see trend will be interesting.

-------General

Oh wow anti heal items and abilities now stack, I thought they stacked this whole time. Bart did too apparently.

------------Gods

Bastet Nerf:

Bastet maintains her hit and run with the pounce nerf; but now she can't jump in, burst, and linger then choose to go back. You jump in burst, then decide whether to jump back immediately or not depending on what potential CC is in range of you. Also her razor whip does a little less damage, while giving it a longer casting time. I am fine with these Nerfs, she'll still be in a good position. She is just less forgiving now on her pounce.

Osiris Buff:
I think he needed this, the man felt too squishy for a warrior. Glad they give his ultimate CC immunity, it was pretty wonky because of that. Also like them rewarding his ultimate with the ability to hit more than one god, since it has a small area to hit. They buffed exactly what I felt needed buffs, hurrah.

Overall: Dark Whisperer AMC just looks amazing. The art department does a great job once again. I agree with the nerf to Bastet and the Buff to Osiris. They both needed tweaks to bring them more in line. So HiRez is doing a good job with nerfs and buffs in my opinion. Course I think they could be doing tweaks to other gods, not just the ones people are talking about the loudest.

Going to discuss Dark Whisperer and the buff/nerfs at 2pm pst (-8gmt) then have viewer games at twitch.tv/ScarfPlays

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